Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (2020)

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Synopsis

What started in 1975 with the disappearance of 20 people from a small town in Oregon, ended in 1997 with the largest suicide on US soil and changed the face of modern New Age religion forever. This four-part docuseries uses never-before-seen footage and first-person accounts to explore the infamous UFO cult that shocked the nation with their out-of-this-world beliefs.

Keywords

castration, cult, ufo, alien, new age, mass suicide, doomsday, religious cult, ritual suicide, ascension, cultists, ufo cult, barbiturates.

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Main cast

Marshall Applewhite

as Self - Co-Leader of Heaven’s Gate (archive footage)

Bonnie Nettles

as Self - Co-Leader of Heaven’s Gate (archive footage)

Sawyer

as Self - Former Member

Frank Lyford

as Self - Former Member

Benjamin Zeller

as Self - Religious Studies Professor

Janja Lalich

as Self - Sociologist

Robert Balch

as Self - Sociologist

Official trailer